Nashville Straights - strings in long packets

Nashville Straights Strings in a long packet

Nashville Straights Strings in a long packet

The unique selling point of Nashville Straights strings was that they came uncoiled in long packages. This is a Nashville Straights advert from 1977 which outlines the benefits of uncoiled strings:

Until now, all guitar strings came coiled up in square envelopes. Unfortunately, coiling a sensitive, finely wound guitar string can bend and damage the precision windings, making the string sound less than perfect. Nashville Straights, the first guitar strings sold straight, are made of the finest nickel and bronze alloys. Inside this long, rigid package, the string set is hermetically sealed in plastic to prevent oxidation and promote brilliance and long life. String up a set of Nashville Stralghts and hear the difference, They‘re resonant, uncrashy, loud and together.

I think the extra problems of storing, shipping and displaying strings in these long packages might have cancelled out the benefits.

Hi: I live in Toronto, Ontario , Canada and I have 2 sets of these strings New in original cardboard sleeves. They are model XL-1400 Extra Light. If you are interested give me your best offer. My e-mail address is pgcurran75@gmail.com

I also used them when playing 5 hours per night, 6 nights per week. They lasted forever and made my les paul with p90's sound like a strat! I sure do miss them. I am now using ernie ball cobalt. They also last forever and sound great!

For a long while I used these exclusively on my Grammer guitar. Best sound ever. I bought them by the dozen and changed them often. It took a couple of days to break them in, then I'd have that rich sound.

As far as I know, they were GHS strings that NS bought uncoiled from the factory. The idea was that leaving the wound strings coiled in a small package tended to flatten the string windings on one side, reducing the vibrating quality of the string. The same strings from GHS, coiled in the package, didn't measure up. Maybe it was true, maybe it was hype, but my Grammer has never sounded quite as good since NS went off the market.